COORDINATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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COORDINATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCEIN THE
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Katerina Kus-Ivanova UNDP/Secretariat for
European Affairs R. Macedonia
Saraevo, March 2006
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Central Donor Assistance Database of the
Government of RoM - CDAD
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Key Operational Bottlenecks Previously Identified

• Lack of overall national reform strategy
• Lack of clearly defined and synchronised sector
  strategies and priorities
• Insufficient information about priorities in
  ministries resulting with absence of a unified
  approach towards the donors
• Communication constraints both horizontally and
  vertically, between the ministries
• Human resources constraints.
• The previous resulting with donor independent
  actions.

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UNDP Aid Coordination, phase 2 project

• Continuation of UNDP project which involved the
  provision of a hardware, software and technical
  assistance to the Secretariat for European
  Affairs for strengthening the national
  co-ordination system and creation of the Central
  Donor Assistance Database (CDAD).
• General Objective
• The general objective of the project is to
  strengthen the coordinated planning among line
  ministries and between the Government and donors
  for more efficient coordination of donor
  assistance.
• Partnership
• Secretariat for European Affairs in cooperation
  with 7 line ministries.

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Project Outputs Activities

• Improved content and usage of CDAD
• CDAD fully redesigned according to the latest
  OECD and EU classifications
• CDAD continuously up-dated
• CDAD promoted and used by ministries and donors
• Web-site redesigned and regularly up-dated.

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Project Outputs Activities

• Strengthened capacities for Monitoring, Analyses
  and Policy Support (MAPS)
• Team of national professionals fully dedicated to
  MAPS engaged within the SEA and 7 line
  ministries
• Prepared documentation for donor coordination
  meetings
• Along with CDAD updating, number of thematic
  reports prepared and distributed.

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Project Outputs Activities

• Strengthened coordination activities
• Support for organisation of government and donor
  coordination meetings (organisation/
  documentation prepared).
• Professionals trained and skilled for MAPS and
  coordination (trainings, seminars, workshops)
• Projects Cycle Management
• Aid Coordination
• Policy Formulation and Analyses.

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Progress Achieved

• Multi annual planning
• National Plan for Adoption of Acquis (NPAA)
  outlining the short- and medium-term priorities
  within the European Partnership presenting
  overall and comprehensive reform strategy
• Fiscal strategy 2006-2008
• Ministerial strategic plans.
• Annual Action Plans on European Partnership
  prepared on annual basis with monthly progress
  reports (monitoring)
• Strategic priorities of the Government determined
  on annual basis
• Foreign Assistance Coordination process shifted
  from donor to Government driven.

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Government Driven Coordination of Foreign
Assistance

• Thematic/sectoral and central coordination
  meetings organised on monthly basis
• Themes agreed with donors on semi-annual basis
  (January-June)
• Meetings organised by Secretariat for European
  Affairs (SEA) in cooperation with the relevant
  ministry and the most active donor in the field
• Public Administration Reform and PIP 2006-2008
  (General Secretariat of the GoRM and British
  Embassy/DFID MoF and World Bank)
• Strategic priorities within the European
  Partnership/NPAA (SEA and EC Delegation)
• Strategic priorities of the Government for 2007
  and Judiciary Reform (SEA MoJ and USAID)
• Agricultural policy and Rural Development (MAFWE
  and Swedish Embassy / SIDA)
• Private investments promotion (Ministry of
  Economy and Dutch Embassy)
• Environment (MoEPP and UNDP)

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Further Challenges

• Establishment of the decentralized system for
  management of EU funds
• Ensuring complementarity between EU and bilateral
  donor funding
• Ensuring complementarity of sectoral strategies
  with Strategic plans and NPAA
• Further consideration of National Development
  Plan preparation (synchronized with EU
  requirements)
• Establishment of horizontal coordination
  mechanism to ensure efficiency of the
  multi-sectoral approach trough
• Further strengthening of strategic planning
  (ministries General Secretariat - SSPM)
• Further strengthening of administrative
  capacities for aid coordination
• Further strengthening of the SEA coordinating
  role in cooperation with MoF.